Browsing Month March, 1999
The rise and fall of identity
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Kristian UrstadMy biggest fear in life would be the discovery that I have no identity. That I am nothing but a spiritless body speeding through life, constantly changing my colours to blend in with the varying environments. That all I feel, all I am, draws its inspiration from whatever I am subjected to at a particular moment. There is no doubt that this would be a more...
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U-Pass needs student support to beat bureaucratic inertia
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Simon GrantThe question is not whether a universal bus pass program would be beneficial to students at SFU. In all other universities in which it has been implemented, student response to the program has been overwhelmingly positive. Improvements to transit service, traffic congestion, and parking availability have been stark and immediate. Separate from these obvious more...
Simon Fraser rules NAIA pool
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Todd Mcphee and Staff WriterAs swimming powerhouses in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics slowly disappear, SFU swimming and diving has emerged as the perennial favourite in the league. The men's and women's teams proved that once again this season by finishing first and second respectively at this years' NAIA championship meet. The men were the more...
Laurin, de Geest named athletes of the year
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Mason WrightSFU athletics recognized its male and female athletes of the year at an awards banquet on Thursday night, but Ryan Laurin and Heather de Geest were just two of the Clan's outstanding performers this season. After finishing last season as a runner-up for the award, outstanding track athlete Heather de Geest won her first SFU female athlete of the year title more...
Hazing in collegiate sports isn’t going anywhere, sociologist says
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Jo-ann Chiu, The Ubyssey, and Vancouver (cup)Exposing rookie initiations in the media will not stop hazing among varsity athletes, says University of Calgary sports sociologist Jamie Bryshun. If anything, it will drive the rituals underground. Bryshun, who has co-authored a chapter in the soon-to-be-released book Sport and Gender in Canada, says the traditions often more...
The alternative Burnaby Mountain development
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Geography 449Increasingly Burnaby Mountain and the Simon Fraser University campus will be an oasis in gas guzzling suburbia. At current growth projections the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) will fast approach 3 million persons, nearly double its present mark, in around 20-25 years. By 2020 there may be as many as 10,000 additional students using the more...
East Timor on our front steps
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Margaret RawiczEach year, first year students in SFU's visual art program produce on-campus public art projects. Most of us will notice at least some of the current crop of projects up around the campus for the next few weeks. I walked by one of them today; it is the text-on-paper piece up on the steps of the convocation platform. As a provisional-looking sign informs more...
Nora Patrich: voice of struggle
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Penny Cholmondeley, The Ubyssey, and Vancouver (cup)This is not false modesty. When Nora Patrich speaks, you know she is sincere. The artist who painted the brilliant, sensous murals in SFU's Multi-Purpose Complex is graceful and relaxed, and her words seem carefully measured. She radiates a subdued energy. For a woman whose life and art have been described as more...
Characters on campus – Mat X
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Megan SimmerEven though I sent him a vaguely frightening e-mail (I think I actually used the phrase, 'You don't know me, but I know you), Mat X was brave enough to consent to be interviewed. The Peak and SFU are pretty lucky to have Mat, since he could have been distracted in some of the other exotic places that he has called home: France, New Orleans, California, more...
Cabaret performance all glitter, no gold
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Ryan RoddyLike Babs to Yentyl, Judy to The Wizard of Oz, and in some respects Celine to Titanic, Liza is Cabaret. This is both a gift and disservice for the musical aficionado; while her performance has been immortalized on film and CD, our expectations are now incredibly high. So high, in fact, that any attempt to stage Cabaret is mired in insurmountable obstacles. more...
